Month: July 2008

Friday afternoon, approximately 4 PM. The team is itching to get to Mars, the local bar where SF Adobe folks flock to after work. I promised Matt I’d go with him and some other Thermo/Flex/FlexBuilder team members to grab a drink. Then I realized I broke the Gumbo Scrollbar. Ensuing IM conversation below….

deepa (7/25/2008 3:57:24 PM): mars?
matt (7/25/2008 3:58:04 PM): cool. i need 3 mins to finish an email
deepa (7/25/2008 3:58:08 PM): k
deepa (7/25/2008 3:58:21 PM): actually hold on
deepa (7/25/2008 3:58:23 PM): i broke scrollbar
matt chotin (7/25/2008 3:58:29 PM): heh
deepa (7/25/2008 3:58:31 PM): lets go in like 15
matt chotin (7/25/2008 4:01:45 PM): ok
—-30 minutes pass—
matt chotin (7/25/2008 4:33:18 PM): status?
deepa (7/25/2008 4:34:22 PM): uh, 5 minutes
matt chotin (7/25/2008 4:34:28 PM): dude!
matt chotin (7/25/2008 4:34:43 PM): no one needs to scroll

When coding gets in the way of beer, you see what can happen.

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If you’re checking out the official Adobe MAX page for the upcoming MAX 2008 conference, you may have noticed I’m speaking. Woo-hoo! I guess I did a good enough job last year that the MAX folks are willing to give me another shot this year. This will be my second time speaking at MAX and its always my favorite conference to attend and speak at. If you haven’t checked out the awesome new Adobe MAX site, do so. The session locater is easy to use and there’s already a lot of information regarding tracks, sessions and speakers.

So, what will my session be about?

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If you check the Flex Open Source site often, you may have noticed that a lot of information regarding the next version of Flex, codename Gumbo, was published today. There’s a high-level presentation covering the Gumbo plan, a whitepaper covering the new tenets laid down by the Gumbo architecture, individual Gumbo feature specifications and most noteworthy: Gumbo source code (an approved build should be posted by 7/15 AM PST on the Gumbo builds page).

Check this information out, especially the source code. Comments for the whitepaper and feature specifications are enabled and we’re dying to hear your feedback. I’m pretty excited about where the Gumbo release is heading and how many problems we are solving with the new architecture. Things that were previously hard to implement in Halo like highly-customized item renderers and decoupling layout from individual components is many times simpler with Gumbo. Keep an eye on the Gumbo open source page to see more feature specifications added as active development continues.

Enjoy.

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